STAR TREK Reviewed this week in The Current Cinema. (In wide release.) TYSON After seeing this fascinating James Toback documen- tary about Mike Tyson, one can never again think of the fighter as a simpleminded thug. He's a very complex-minded thug indeed, full of contradictions, which he articulates with considerable detail and feeling. The man we see is sad and vulnerable and ferocious all at once-frightened as a virtually parent- less boy in Brooklyn who was robbed by neighbor- hood kids, then remorseless as a baby gangster rob- bing drug dealers. In detention in upstate New York, he was steered into boxing and wound up in the hands of the great trainer Cus D' Amato, who took him in, fathered him, and got him to concentrate his strength and rage into a relentless attack in which speed-a hail of punches-drives through his op- ponents' defenses. The rest is bravado, boasting, good and bad times with many women and hangers- on, enormous earnings (most of them blown), and wrenching self-criticism and self-abnegation. To- back doesn't press Tyson on the rape conviction that sent him to prison for three years. (Tyson claims he was innocent.) He lets Tyson speak at great length, and we are free to judge the self-mythologizing, which, however overblown, cannot blur the genu- inely tragic story of an ignorant street kid's precip- itous rise and disastrous fal1.-D.D. (5/11/09) (In limited release.) X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE This noisy, undistinguished prequel to the "X-Men" series is mainly a fight film. The two warring mu- tant brothers, Liev Schreiber, a morose sadist with fangs, and Hugh Jackman, unhappy but ripped, fly at each other again and again, grappling, punch- ing, slashing. Much of the combat is just a whirl of movement photographed up close. As the "X-Men" series has progressed, the startling and delicate po- etic extravagances of the first film have given way to flesh-pounding brutishness; the men might be two angry Humvees at war. The story, devised by David Benioff and Skip Woods, is largely mean- ingless, and the emotions in the movie are no more than functional-they set up the next fight. With Danny Huston as the devious Colonel Stryker, who, claiming he can make Wolverine indestructible, dips him in a glass laboratory bathtub and injects a sub- stance called adamantium into his veins. Naked, a buff Frankenstein's monster, Wolverine escapes, and Stryker tries to hunt him down. Various other mu- tants make brief appearances, to little effect. Di- rected by Gavin Hood.-D.D. (5/11/09) (In wide release. ) Also Playing EARTH: In wide release. HANNAH MONTANA THE MOVIE: In wide release. I LOVE YOU. MAN: In wide release. KNOWING: In wide release. MONSTERS VS. ALIENS: In wide release. OBSESSED: In wide release. 17 AGAIN: In wide release. STATE OF PLAY: In wide release. VALENTINO: THE LAST EMPEROR: In limited release. REVIVALS, CLASSICS, ETC. Titles with a dagger are reviewed above. ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES 32 Second Ave., at 2nd St. (212-505-5181)-The films of Sergei Loznitsa. All films are in Russian. May 13-19 at 7:30: "Revue" (2008). May 13-19 at 9:30: "Blockade" (2006). May 16 at 5:30: "The Settlement" (2001). May 17 at 5:30: Short-film program, including "The Train Sta- tion" (2001). . Films by Ken Jacobs. May 15-21 at 6:45 and 9:15: "Anaglyph Tom" (2008). May 16-17 at 4:30: "Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son" (1969). BAM ROSE CINEMAS 30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn (718-636-4100)- Through May 21: "The Late Film." May 13 at 6:50 and 9:30: "7 Women" (1966, John Ford). The 6:50 screening will be introduced by the critic Elliott Stein. May 14 at 4:30 and 9:30: "A Talk- ing Picture" (2003, Manoel de Oliveira; in Por- tuguese, French, Italian, English, and Greek). May 14 at 6:50: "And the Ship Sails On" (1983, Federico Fellini; in Italian). May 15 at 2, 4:30, 6:50, and 9:15: "King Lear" (t). May 16 at 3, 6, and 9: "Marnie" (t). May 17 at 3, 6, and 9: "The Duchess of Langeais" (2007, Jacques Ri- vette; in French). The 6 P.M. screening will be in- troduced by Miriam Bale, the co-curator of the series. May 18 at 4:30, 6:50, and 9:15: "Good Morning" (1959, Yasujiro Ozu; in Japanese). May 19 at 6:50 and 9:15: "Track of the Cat" (1954, William A. Wellman). FILM FORUM \XZHouston St. west of Sixth Ave. (212-727-8110)- The Con Film Festival. May 13 at 1, 4:25, and 8:20: "Each Dawn I Die" (1939, William Keigh- ley). May 13 at 2:50, 6:15, and 9:40: "20,000 Years in Sing Sing" (1933, Michael Curtiz). . May 14 at 1:30, 5:25, and 9:20: "The Prisoner of Shark Island" (1936, John Ford). May 14 at 3:20 and 7:15: "Les Misérables" (1935, Richard Boleslawski). May 15 at 1:30, 5:35, and 9:40: "Caged" (1950, John Cromwell). May 15 at 3:20 and 7:25: "I Want to Live!" (1958, Robert Wise). May 16 at 1:30, 5:10, and 8:50: "Es- cape from Alcatraz" (1979, Don Siegel). May 16 at 3:35 and 7:15: "Riot in Cell Block 11" (1954, Siegel). May 17 at 1:30, 5:20, and 9:10 and May 18 at 1 and 4:50: "Sullivan's Travels" (1942, Preston Sturges). . May 17 at 3:15 and 7:05 and May 18 at 2:45: "0 Brother, Where Art Thou?" (2000, Joel Coen). May 19 at 1, 3:45, 6:30, and 9:15: "Birdman of Alcatraz" (1962, John Frankenheimer). The films of Tod Brown- ing. May 18 at 6:35 and 9:35: "The Devil Doll" (1936). . May 18 at 8:10: "Where East Is East" (1929). FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER Walter Reade Theatre, Lincoln Center (212-875- 5610)-In première. May 13-14 and May 19 at 3 and 7; May 15 at 7; May 16-17 at 1, 4:45, and 8:15; and May 18 at 1: "Being Jewish in France" (2007, Yves Jeuland; in French). FRENCH INSTITUTE ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE Florence Gould Hall, 55 E. 59th St. (212-355- 6160)-"World Nomads Haiti." May 19 at 12:30 and 7: "Miss Body Plastik" (2008, Louis Ebby Angel; in Creole) and "Mrs. Little Bones" (2006, David Bell; in Creole and English). The 7 P.M. screen- ing will be introduced by the directors. May 19 at 4: "Mrs. Little Bones" and "Anita" (1981, Ras- soul Labuchin; in Creole and French). IFC CENTER 323 Sixth Ave., at \XZ 3rd St. (212-924-7771)- "Waverly Midnights." May 15-16: "Full Metal Jacket" (1987, Stanley Kubrick). "Stranger Than Fiction," a documentary series. May 19 at 8: A tribute to the director Peter Davis. MUSEUM OF MODERN ART Roy and Niuta Titus Theatres, 11 W. 53rd St. (212-708-9480)-"The Old West: Myth, Char- acter, and Reinvention." May 13 and May 15 at 1:30: "Sunset" (1967, Andy Warhol) and "Imita- tion of Christ" (1967-69, Warhol). May 14 at 1:30: "Bike Boy" (1967, Warhol). Through May 23: The films of Kim Longinotto. May 13 at 4: "Runaway" (2001). May 13 at 7: "Gaea Girls" (2000). May 14 at 4: "Dream Girls" (1993, Longinotto and Jano Williams) and "Shin juku Boys" (1995, Longinotto and Williams). May 14 at 7: "The Good Wife of Tokyo" (1992, Lon- ginotto and Claire Hunt) and "Eat the Kimono" (1989, Longinotto and Hunt). May 15-16 at 4: "Divorce Iranian Style" (1998, Longinotto and Ziba Mir-Hosseini). May 15 at 4: "Hidden Faces" (1990, Longinotto and Hunt). Through May 28: The films of Julien Duvivier. Except where noted, all films are in French. May 13 at 4:30: "David Golder" (t). May 13 at 8 and May 16 at 5: "Au Bonheur des Dames" (1930; silent). May 14 at 4:30 and May 15 at 8: "La Fin du Jour" (1938). May 14 at 8: "Un Car- CELEBRATING THE BICENTENARY OF THE BIRTH OF CHARLES DARWIN Does evolution explain human nature? Except where Obviously, it matters. says the monkey. As I write this essay, my fingers hold a pen and my eyes scan the page - fingers that have evolved from fins, , \ , Simon eyes that have developed from Conway Morris little more than pigmented spots. We may walk tall, but we cast a long evolutionary shadow. At the same time, my ears are distracted by bird -song from the yard outside. But why should I bother to waste my time listening to the birds? .. CON TIN U ED 0 N L I N E Human nature simply cannot be understood in isolation from the rest of nature. This evolutionary ,. Frans approach is already de Waal difficult for many people to accept, but it is likely to generate even more resistance once its implications are fully grasped. After all, the idea that we descend from long-armed, hairy creatures is only half the message of evolutionary theory. . . CONTINUED ONLINE Visit www. templeton. org/evolution to read essays on this question by: Francisco Ayala I Francis Collins I Simon Conway Morris I Frans de Waal EvaJablonka I Lynn Margulis I Geoffrey Miller I Martin Nowak Joan Roughgarden I Jeffrey Schloss I David Sloan Wilson I Robert Wright JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION SUPPORTING SCIENCEINVESTING IN THE BIG QUESTIONS THIS IS THE FIFTH IN A SERIES OF CONVERSATIONS AMONG LEADING SCIENTISTS, SCHOLARS, AND PUBLIC FIGURES ABOUT THE "BIG QUESTIONS." JOIN THE CONVERSATION AT WWW.TEMPLETON.ORG/EVOLUTION. THE NEW YORKER, MAY 18, 2009 17